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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 172
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Edith Sitwell
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
Knowledge is power.
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Carl Jung
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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W. Somerset Maugham
It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.
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Branch Rickey/ Dogers GM (1943-50)
Thou shall not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, thou shall steal and thou must.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.’
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
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Max Lucado
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
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William Shakespeare
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.
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James Madison
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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Charles Kuralt
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
If you wish to be a sucess in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
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